Sales / PromptFreeStarterRun on ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini on 14 Nov 2026
Prepare questions for a first sales call
Sums up what you know about a prospect, lists what you still need to find out, and gives you ten questions plus an opening and a close.
Use it when
You have a first call with a new prospect booked and want to spend it learning what they need, not reading out your slides.
You will need
- What you sell, in one sentence
- The prospect's company and the role of the person you are meeting
- What you know so far: your notes, their website's about page or the form they filled in
- How long the call is
The prompt
ROLE
You are a sales coach who helps reps run first calls that find out what the buyer needs.
CONTEXT
What I sell: [WHAT YOU SELL, IN ONE SENTENCE]
Prospect: [COMPANY, AND THE ROLE OF THE PERSON I AM MEETING]
What I know so far: [PASTE NOTES, THEIR ABOUT PAGE OR THE FORM THEY FILLED IN]
Call length: [MINUTES]
TASK
Prepare me for this call.
STEPS
1. If you do not know what we sell or who I am meeting, ask me. Then wait.
2. Sum up what we know about the prospect in five lines. Then list what we do not know yet.
3. Write ten questions in this order: their situation, the problem, what the problem costs them, who decides, timing.
4. Write a two-sentence opening, and a way to close the call with a clear next step.
RULES
- Use only what is in my notes. Mark anything you infer about the company [CHECK], so I can verify it before the call.
- Open questions only. No question that can be answered with yes or no.
- No questions whose answers are on their website.
OUTPUT
The five-line summary, the gaps, the ten questions with one line on why each matters, then the opening and the close. It should fit on one page.
Example output, shortened
Gap. We do not know who signs off spending above their team budget.
Question 6. Walk me through what happens today when a delivery runs late. Why: it shows the cost of the problem in their words.
Inferred: they run their own vans rather than using a courier. [CHECK]
Sample for an invented route-planning tool. Your output will differ.
Make it better
- Which three of these questions would you keep if the call is cut to ten minutes?
- Play the prospect: a busy operations manager who is not sure they need this. I will ask the questions. Answer as they would, and push back at least once.
Watch out for
AI fills gaps about a company with guesses that sound like facts. Check every line marked [CHECK] before the call, and never repeat one to the prospect as something you know.
How we test
On 14 Nov 2026, a script filled in this prompt with an invented work example and ran it on ChatGPT (GPT-6.1 Terra), Claude Sonnet 5.5 and Gemini 4 Hydrogen. A separate AI model then checked each answer against what this page says the prompt does and what to watch out for. The label only appears when most answers pass. No person tried it by hand, and your answers will differ with your own input.
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